Synthetic data generation has emerged as a crucial technique for addressing various challenges, including data privacy, scarcity and bias. By creating artificial data that mimics real-world datasets, ...

The majority of recent empirical papers in operations management (OM) employ observational data to investigate the causal effects of a treatment, such as program or policy adoption. However, as ...

Antimicrobial resistance studies often focus on individual protein variants, neglecting broader protein family dynamics. Dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR), a key antibiotic target, has been extensively ...

Scientists can now design virus-based bacteria killers from scratch, potentially reshaping the fight against antibiotic resistance. Bacteriophages have been used therapeutically to treat infectious ...

Despite the prevalence of synthetic materials across different industries and scientific fields, most are developed to serve a limited set of functions. To address this inflexibility, researchers at ...

(Nanowerk News) The University of Liverpool has reported a significant advancement in engineering biology and clean energy. A team of researchers has developed an innovative light-driven hybrid ...

Yılmaz, Övünç; Son, Yoonseock; Shang, Guangzhi; Arslan, Hayri A. Causal inference under selection on observables in operations management research: Matching methods and synthetic controls. Journal of ...